THE MONUMENTAL BRASSES OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
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Translation : 
In this place is buried Sir Richard Bennet, M.A., formerly 
the faithful pastor of this church, who paid the debt t 
nature on the 8th of January, 1531. On whom God have 
mercy. 
The chalice now used in the church is a faithful copy of 
that represented on this brass. 
III. — Inscription. Nich. Greenhill, M.A., Rector, 1650. 
This is a small brass plate, not mentioned by Haines, upon 
the north wall of the chancel. It bears the following verses, 
composed by Richard Boles, M.A., rector of the church in 
1682 :— 
This Green hill Periwigd with Snow 
Was leauild in the Spring : 
This Hill y e Nine & Three did know. 
Was sacred to his King. 
But he must downe, although so much divine. 
Before he Rise never to set, but shine. 
RI. BOLES. M r - ART. 1682. 
IV. — Inscription. Rich. Boles, M.A. 1689. 
A small plate, 7in. by 4Hn., similar to and near the last, 
and not mentioned by Haines. 
Richard Boles seems to have been fond of writing 
epitaphs, and composed his own some time before his 
death. He says :— 
This mirrour makes me slight a life half done. 
Because a Better comes when this is Fled ; 
The Time and Place where I doe live are knowne 
My Death and Grave none knowes but God alone. 
My Death is Certain and Vncertaine : Then 
Mortalls beware. Death comes you know not when. 
I value not a Tombe ; Obscuie to lie 
With Virtue is an Immortalitie. 
My Life runns on Five yeares beyond Four Score, 
Once 1 must die and then shall die no more. 
Rl. BOLES. Ano. Dni. 1689. H£tat. meae 85. 
WITHYBROOK. — A civilian, circ. 1500. 
I am indebted to Mr. W. S. Brassington, of Moseley, 
Birmingham, for a rubbing of this brass. It is in the nave, 
